The Bully

by Tricia Hertz, age 13

The Bully The class bully smarts his way through
English class,
Everyone listens to what he says and
laughs.
His grades are falling,
The teachers are calling.
He shrugs them off,
Not caring at all.
He sits and stars paper blank,
His only thought a single blink.
After school he lounges around,
Later he meets his friends for a night
on the town.
His friends ask if he wants a smoke,
He accepts not caring he is doing dope.
He comes home late his mother lectures,
He only ignores her remembering his
ventures.
Later that night he sneaks out quietly,
Not realizing the change to come that
is really quite mighty.
He met his buddies by the store,
They drank and smoked till stomachs
could hold no more.
Soon a game came around,
Of who could drive the fastest around town.
The bully not realizing he was drunk,
Volunteered first hoping to seem rea
l tough.
He jumped in the car and yelled to them
all,
That he was the best and right on the
ball.
Instead of that ball his car landed on
top of another.
Inside were Jenny and her father and
mother.
For they had just come back from the
hospital you see,
And Jenny was their new baby.

They were going home to raise her
right,
To teach her the difference from
naughty and nice.
To love her with all there might,
But there chance ended that night.
As the bully climbed out of his car
only bruised,
He looked into the other car to see
some real bad news.
There was a couple and a small child he
hoped what he saw was simply a lie,
For there they lay all covered in blood
and ready to die.
Those next few hours to the bully are
now a blur,
He only remembers two things more.
He remembered the man grab his wife's
hand so their last few moments on
earth they could share.
But nothing on earth could ever
compare,
Not even his charges of three
manslaughter,
The look he got from their baby
daughter.
For as she breathed her last breath,
She smiled her first and last smile
just before her all too soon death.
To this day he sits in that cell,
Remember that look he got from Jenny
who's now an angel.